Man, I can't believe how fast this month flew by considering how slow the days are!
Trainings haven't been so bad lately, A few organizations that have come to talk with us have been very interesting and I am keeping them in the back of my mind as an after AmeriCorps possibility. Save the Children and Evacuteer are two that really caught my interest.
Oh! This Thursday and Friday my team (along with 8? others) will be going to New Orleans for the five year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. We'll be down helping build some homes. I am really excited. It will be great to help with a disaster that affected our country so drastically. FIVE YEARS later, and it is still being deqalt with. All of the other teams will be going to the Mississippi Gulf Coast to help rebuild there.
Also, I have never been to New Orleans so I am looking forward to exploring! But I have been told that I need to work on my pronunciation of "New Orleans." My Washingtonian accent is getting in the way I guess. I pronounce it Noo-Ore-Leens, but down here/there I have to say it N'Are-Lens. Which doesn't work very well coming out of my mouth. Ha.
My first spike is coming up pretty quick too! I have a couple days of prep after we get back from "N'Are-lens" and we will have our briefing and clearance meetings with the staff, and then a day later we leave for Florida! I'm pretty excited.
I've been getting to know the members of my new team a bit more the past couple weeks and I'm excited to be doing this with them. It'll be good.
That's all for now, I have some reading/research I need to go do for our first spike.
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